throwaway080383

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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Hm, odd definition of superior, but I work at a place where levels are secret and titles only reflect function.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
To me, it sounded like they all reported to Greg.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
If anyone except maybe my skip-manager scheduled a meeting for 9am, I'd say "Sorry I don't get in before 10".
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
An absolute nightmare! A hellish experience!
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
My understanding is that she understands the business side extremely well, i.e. establishing and maintaining relationships with the big advertisers, figuring out what the most lucrative ads platform looks like in the early days, etc. I agre
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Doesn't have to be fancy JavaScript. Even an asterisk next to disputed items and a link to the "Alternative Nutrition Facts" would be helpful.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I'd love to see a machine learning system that consistently matches the profits that the successful quantitative funds do. How about Google Search?
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I grew up in one of these towns in the Midwest, and this is exactly what I fear for its future. The college tuition costs nearly as much as Harvard but the educational value is worse than that of a public university in many ways.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
D.E. Shaw apparently uses the term "human capital".
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
If you run an experiment and time spent per day is cut in half, that's a pretty clear signal the experiment shouldn't ship, vision or not.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Pretty sure they meant Linux.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I can assure you that Protobufs and Thrift are used in the real world.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Coffee. If I need to slog through something tedious I'll drink a beer or two.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I'm saying it will not push my wages up. And that's a good thing.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Yes, to be clear, I think raising the minimum wage and decreasing wealth inequality is a good thing, even if it marginally negatively affects me in the short term.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Damn, yes I could see how my original comment would naturally be interpreted that way. To be clear, what I meant to get across was that the wage increase was not going to be a no-op due to inflation or whatever; it will make those people&#x
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
It's all relative. If minimum wage workers get their income doubled, but my income does not double, then they are doing better relative to me than they were before. And I do not expect my salary to double upon passing of such legisla
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
They can do whatever they want; I signed up for the trial, but bullet points 3 and 4 are why I would be extremely hesitant to pay a dime for it today. In contrast, I made a Steam account back in 2003, right when they launched. In college an
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I could see how if you were doing performance-sensitive stuff, JS might be a weird choice, but what's wrong with MySQL?
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
*Forte
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Nit: it seems it's more like a smooth approximation to maxarg than max. Yeah it makes sense that this is a super important function, but I still feel like one could just remember the principle that "exponentiation followed by norm
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Coming from pure math, I often feel this way now learning statistics and ML. In pure math, it feels like the threshold for how a novel a concept should be before it gets its own word is much higher. E.g, we have "regression" and &
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
So pointwise exponentiation composed with dividing by the sum. Still don't need a new word.
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Hawking spent his entire professional life in the UK. Wiles bounced around between Princeton, Paris, and Oxford, but he was educated up through his PhD in the UK. From my perspective as an American in number theory, it seems there is no sho
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Comes with the territory of "bringing your whole self to work".
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Years even. And really, that's kind of the issue at hand. This stuff is so difficult that very few mathematicians really understand it, and Mochizuki's work is so much more esoteric than that, that basically no one understands it,
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
I don't know what America you're living in, but I'm not sure I know a single person on either end of the political spectrum who doesn't view Russia as extremely corrupt. Some will say "we are just as bad", to w
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Just a few months ago, a very senior engineer on my team made this same observation about Moore's Law after I lamented that bit twiddling tricks and knowledge of obscure algorithmic speedups don't often end up being useful in prac
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
A lot of nice "approachable"-sounding problems here: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/66084/open-problems-with-...
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by throwaway080383 8y ago
Bingo. I'm left-leaning in a left-leaning environment, but I avoid talking about politics, especially in writing, because it can only hurt me.

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